In game friend chat through steam.

Chasester_aka_you | 2010-10-14 21:44

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For all those familiar with teamfortress 2 half life or left 4 dead you would know that they are produced through steam, a gaming company. They have a platform for friends which allows you to friend chat voice chat and keep track of your friends. You can use this for cube or any mod of it. To do this do the following:

Go to steams website and download there platform.
This is located a the top just left of center.
Go through the instruction to install on your system.
When installed it will ask for a user name and password. Click create new account
Give the needed information
once this is done you can login
Now you will be at the main page inside the steam platform
To add cube to your list of games do the following
Go to your cube folder (what ever mod you want to install) Note: Ive only done it with Saubraten
Open the Bin folder and copy all of the files in there to the main folder (Saubraten folder)
Then go back to steam
Go to the Menu Bar at the top of the program and click on Games>add a non-steam game to my library
all the programs on your computer will show up here, if it is there click on it else go browse and find the exe (not the bat: the exe is one of the files that you pulled out of the bin folder
Then click Add selected program
At the top under the menu bar click Library, it should appear under here.
Then you can click play, and it will run

This platform is absolutely free, and if you would like you can buy some of steams games but it is not required. Doing this allows you do the following:

In game Chat with steam friends
In game browser (by clicking shift tab you can open steam in game over top of saubrauten (it looks great)
Voice Chat with steam friends
management of who is on and offline
and much more :)

Heres pics

Hope this helps
chasester

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skiingpenguins | 2010-10-14 23:55

why do you move the executable? are you launching it also?

Chasester_aka_you | 2010-10-15 00:08

because of the way cube is writen .. u can not launch from the exe file but from the bat file ... steam requires a exe not a bat so you must make the exe launchable :)
that is how you do it

SheeEttin | 2010-10-15 06:33

So just edit the batch file to run the overlay...
Prepend "C:\Program Files\Steam\GameOverlayUI.exe" (or wherever your Steam installation is) to the path to the binary.

But that won't add it to your Steam library... Maybe adding the binary in the library and then adding "-k.." to the arguments passed would do it. (Is -k still supported? I think I remember something about that...)

Windecker | 2010-10-15 01:28

Sauerbraten knows where to look for the core textures if it is the root folder of the game. From the bin folder it cannot find them. The batch file serves to fix this in a slightly cleaner way than copying the exe and dlls to the sauerbraten root.

srbs | 2010-10-15 04:28

Why don't you just convert the bat to an exe?
e.g. Bat To Exe Converter 1.5

afroninja | 2010-10-15 22:08

interesting idea

Theso | 2010-10-17 17:40

Steam isn't a gaming company. It's software made by Valve for PC game management and distribution.

Chasester_aka_you | 2010-10-18 04:03

They also release games-- TF2 left4dead ?

srbs | 2010-10-18 08:26

To reiterate what Theso said:

Steam is an application that manages and distributes games.
Valve Corporation is a game development company. They also wrote and maintain Steam.

Reference:
Valve
Steam

srbs

Chasester_aka_you | 2010-10-18 21:27

my bad :)

Im Almost Perfect
chasester

Sub Zero | 2010-10-25 23:01

Teampeak 3
Mumble, and really on topic

Xfire

L. Tempris | 2010-10-28 02:16

could Steam be redistributed as part of a package? Or just as itself alone? It would be sweet to have coupled with a game.

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